>> we had to climb into the closet, and we heard a lot more gunshots and the ambulance came. >> i saw some of the boys going past the hall that i was right next to. >> shut off the lights and -- >> we had to lock our doors so the animal couldn't get in. >> there were 20 parents who were just told that their children are dead. it was awful. >> are you doing okay? >> i don't know. >> i don't understand how they could hurt innocent children. i just don't get that. >> may god bless the memory of the victims, and in the words of scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds. captioning funded by cbs the tragedy at sandy hook

elementary school, saturday december 15th, 2012. we're about 60 miles northeast of new york city. welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." we are in newtown, connecticut, just a short ways away from the school where a gunman slaughtered 20 young children and adults yesterday morning before taking his own life. the firehouse behind us was a gathering place for terrified parents who rushed to the scene after learning of the attack. >> it was the second worst mass killing in u.s. history after the virginia tech shootings in 2007, but the depths of the

what is sure to be many signs of a community coming together. we've learned that all of the dead have been identified of authorities with the help of pictures provided by grieving parents and family members. the bodies havy it to be removed from the school which remains a crime scene. >> and here in newtown, the is impossible to exaggerate and jeff glor has more on that. jeff good morning. >> reporter: rebecca, good morning to you. we may never know why the shooter did what he did, but people here are trying to understand, and they are struggling. >> all those families i'm so sorry. i am so sorry you have this to deal with. >> reporter: for the community of newtown, connecticut, friday's elementary school

shootings were something they couldn't even imagine. >> there was a bit of a challenge insulation or feeling that tragedy won't happen here and now it has, and unfortunately i think it's going to define this town. >> and i don't understand how he could hurt innocent children. i just don't get that. what did those poor babies do to you? that's the hard part. >> reporter: three of those victims were taken to danbury hospital. two of them died there. dr. john murphy coordinated the response. >> i was in the emergency room when we got the call that there would not be any more victims coming, and that was a devastating call to get. and the room fell silent when we shared the news and there was a moment of deep grief, recognizing what that meant. >> that most of the victims couldn't be saved. >> that's correct. >> and so there were more.

hundreds gathered at prayer vigils across newtown where the city's grief was matched with disbelief. >> all i can think of is they were excite and they were getting ready to celebrate christmas. >> second worst massacre in our history in my town. >> i think i cried out my tears. we've all been crying since probably this morning. >> reporter: from parent whose children had escaped the event, a different emotion. >> i have no words, no words. i feel in some respect guilty because i have my baby here and i just hope anybody who needs help -- i feel terrible. >> reporter: it doesn't matter where you go here. the hospital a diner, gas station, you see it on people's faces. their eyes are puffy, their voices are quiet. this town and many of the families who live here will never be the same.

rebecca, anthony? >> and the nation grieves along with them. jeff glor thank you. >> we are starting to learn the names of some of the victims of this tragedy. margaret brennan is at the newtown united methodist church with more on that. good morning, margaret. >> reporter: good morning anthony. there are only a few homes here and now 27 lives to put to rest. only two children made it to the hospital before dying. the rest died at the school alongside their teacher and principal. 47-year-old dawn hochsprung was shot and killed alongside the children she cared for at sandy hook elementary school. parents remember her as a friend to the students. >> she was wonderful. always good to the kids always a smile on her face made you feel good when you were there. >> reporter: she joined the school in 2010. she kept an active twitter account posting updates on the

school. she tweeted safety first at sandy hook. it's a beautiful day for our evacuation drill. so far we know the identities of three of her students. 7-year-old. emily parker who moved to connecticut with her family just a year ago and chase kowalski survived by his parents rebecca and steve. also among the dead school psychologist mary sherlock 56 years old. she planned to retire next year. and vicki soto 27-year-old first grade teacher. the first victim nancy lanza worked with young children. she died at home believed to have been shot dead by her own son. >> margaret do we have any idea yet when the police will begin to move the bodies from the school? >> reporter: well state police have identified the children and they are optimistic that they'll be able to release the

remains to the family later today. but no specific time frame has been released just yet, anthony. >> margaret, it's almost impossible to imagine any sort of recovery after this but what's your view on how this community will come together since you've grown up so close to here? >> reporter: well, you know rebecca, everything has come to a halt this weekend. all school activities all sporting event,s, all social activities. as you can see behind me there's a sign on the door that says sanctuary, open. we even seen people coming in with flowers. there will be a memorial service and vigil around 12:00 at the episcopal church and there will be many many events throughout the weekend as people try to absorb what has happened. >> margaret brennan. thanks, margaret. >> thank you, margaret. we're now joined by an eyewitness of this tragedy. gene rosen is a long-time

resident of newtown and he lives right next door to the firehouse behind us. his own son went to sandy hook elementary. yesterday he took in six young children who were traumatized by the attack. thank you. good morning. >> good morning to you. >> we know how difficult this is for you. taking in those six children what was that like? the children were so frightened. i didn't know why they were on my lawn. i didn't know how they got there. i looked outside and i saw these six children and i thought that that they were practicing a play or cub scouts and i went and i approached them and it became clear they were so distressed. they were just so distressed. so i took them into my house, and they were crying and talking. i got them some stuffed animals

because we have a lot for my grandson. >> gene you didn't understand -- >> i didn't. i had no idea what had happened. there seemed to be a bus driver who i don't quite understand it picked them up and they stopped in front of my house and she said there was an incident. i had no idea what happened. and then the children started talking. i feel they had witnessed some of what -- some of the bloodshed. they were very brave. they were very sweet children. we started calling their parents, and they just said i can't go back to that school and they said something about their teacher, and then their parents started coming slowly. they were such sweet kids. >> these were young children. >> they were young children between 6 and 8 years old.

>> really. >> and they were -- they talked about a gun. i had a strong sense they had witnessed. >> something. >> either in passing when they were leaving. i don't know if they fled from the school. i don't know how that happened. they were on my front lawn. they were very nice kids. i want to see them again. >> what would you say to them if you saw them right now, gene? >> i would tell them how brave they were. i would tell them how brave they were and how i want to be their friend. i'll never forget them. >> gene how long was it before their parents were able to get there? >> about 30 or 40 minutes. >> really. how were they doing during that time. >> there was one little girl who was inconsolable. i put my arms around her. the boys and the other two

girls, they were very composed. i think they were shocked. >> sure. >> i thank were really shocked. but they -- they were brave. they were really sweet children. they said i can't go back to that school. >> what message would you like the rest of the country to hear about your experience and the children of this community? >> the beauty of children the strength of children. and the kindness of a community, the goodness of parents. i want to meet their parents, speak with them. this is a very good community. it's a very tight community. i was going to the diner, a small little country diner, and u say the children. my life changed.

>> gene rosen, thank you. >> thank you, gene. >> thank you for sharing your story with us. >> thank you for being here. thank you. >> there are so many questions yet to be answered about this massacre of innocent children one that haunts us all is what kind of person was adam lanza. another, what would drive a young man to do such a thing. let's get the latest of that part of the investigation from senior correspondent john miller former director of the fbi. john's in our studio. john, what have we learned about adam lanza? >> what we've learned is he was a quiet boy. friends told us as we found them through the night that he was socially awkward and in some cases he made people uncomfortable who didn't know him well and very different from his older brother who had been to college, gotten a job at a brokerage firm and his brother, the alleged shooter, stayed at

home. a very sketchy picture is coming together. one of the things we look at all the time in these cases, anthony, is in this age of kind of living out loud that electronic footprint, people's facebook pages, all of their tweets and messages and texts, we found scant evidence that he really had a profile out there online and the story is mounting that he was really a young man unto himself. >> which is an interesting point, john because in some previous cases, similar with some of the similar elements to this one, we've seen similar issues with the person the perpetrator of the crime. when we're looking for a motive which is almost impossible to understand at this point, what are law enforcement officials looking for here? >> well, they're actually handling this. rebecca, it's kind of interesting. the suspect is dead. there's not going to be any trial.

yet the investigation is being carried out just as if this were a mystery, and that's because they're getting search warrants they're going to look to see if he has a computer can they get into it notes and notebooks at the home because they're going to want to know "a," to a certainty that no one else was involved or in the planning. they certainly anticipate that. they've got go through those motions and do it in the same legal way as they would another legal investigation. but, two, people always want to know in the study of these crimes and criminals a "why," and they really don't have a window into that yet. >> and especially because this case targeted a school of children, many of them around 5 years old. that's a big question here and what his mom's relationship to the school was and his relationship to her. >> that's true. and, you know, later in the show, we may talk to mary ellen o'toole, the former fba profiler

who may given us some insight into that. but, you know the quick sketch is he killed the mother in the home. she had worked in the school and he set off to the school. so it may be the problems between he and his mother resulted in this murder an then he set off to kill the other thing in her life that she loved. >> john, they took adam zlan's brother into custody in new jersey yesterday. they took him away in handcuffs which i think might lead some people to suspect he's a suspect but it doesn't mean that. what do you think they were looking for from his brother? >> these things are very fluid, and one of the things that i said and body orr said yesterday is in the beginning these things are always gashle ed legar billion garbled.

one thing is he had his brother's identification on him and there was confusion at the scene that he was identified as ryan. then that information was given to the fbi and the police in new jersey to follow up that lead find his residence, get that locked down do a search only to encounter a young man who said, no i'm ryan. that's my brother adam. during that confusion they talked to him and relayed the information back and then the instructions were let's bring him to the police station. at that point they didn't understand is this adam, is this ryan, is he the suspect, is he not the suspect? i think by then they had a handle that there had been a mixup. but putting him in handcuffs is one of those things they do where they try to sort it out and for officers' safety they say, let's figure it out after the situation. certainly very unfortunate for him to be in that position. >> all right. john miller in new york. thanks, john. a few hours after word of the shooting reached the white house, president obama appeared

in the briefing room. he was visibly shaken and said expected to lend empathetic moral support and a tearful president obama did just that. >> the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduations,

weddings, kids of their own. >> reporter: the stars and stripes flew at half-staff over the white house capitol as the president spoke with words of consolation. >> for as blessed as they are to have their children home tonight, they know that their children's innocence has been torn away from them too early and there are no words that will ease their pain. >> reporter: after previous incidence of gun violence they have called for new firearm restricts because they would be politically difficult. when congresswoman gabrielle giffords was shot two years ago and at the shooting at the movie theater last year in colorado. >> we can enhance it by making

it more difficult for those who should not have weapons under existing laws make it more difficult for them to obtain weapons. >> reporter: but yesterday the president moved closer than ever before to call for new legislation. >> as a country, we've hecks to find evidence of mental illness. rebecca, anthony? >> bill plante thank you. we'll have much more on the tragedy in newtown, but first let's take a look at the weather for your weekend.

coming up a school leader tells us what comes next for the kids of newtown. and later, are we doing enough to protect our classrooms? you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

coming up we're going to be speaking with man who's become the face of the investigation into yesterday's school shooting. connecticut state police lieutenant paul vance. he has been working through the night, all day yesterday. >> and obviously a story that's continually moving and changing and trying to keep track of

that. >> we'll be right back with him. this is "cbs this morning saturday" and we are live from newtown, connecticut on this

welcome back to "cbs this morning saturday," and we are live in newtown, connecticut, devoting the entire two hours today to this tragedy that began unfolding really yesterday morning when police got a call from this community, from the sandy hook elementary school which is not far from where we are right now. we're sitting right now in front of the firehouse. the sandy hook school is not far from here. and really the firehouse was a refuge for both children who had run from the school and for parents who came looking for their children.

i spoke with a minister here in town yesterday who said he came to this firehouse at about 10:30 yesterday, and the scene was just sobbing. everybody crying and a lot of chaos and everybody wondering what comes next. >> right. >> how do we rebuild. >> and one of the problems here i think now a lot of the people in the community are just getting a chance to come together and sort out what happened. much of yesterday was spent just trying to figure out what had occurred. you know they didn't even have time to respond and react. you were at a candlelight vigil last night which was really the first kind of community gathering after this weren't you? >> it was. and what is important to think about here is that at this candlelight vigil, and they were all over the entire town churches synagogues religious institutions, people came by the hundreds literally overflowing through the church with grief.

and to see that and to see it first hand you know that this community is coming together, but you also see their loss. >> and how hard it's going to be. we'll have more from newtown. please stay with us.

welcome back to "cbs this morning saturday." from newtown connecticut, i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis and we're devoting two hours this morning to the tragedy at sandy hook elementary school where a gunman killed 26 people yesterday, 20 of them young children. >> and we begin this half hour with a look at the ongoing police investigation of this terrible crime. and joining us is lieutenant

paul vance of the connecticut state police. and in our new york studio "cbs this morning" senior correspondent john miller good morning to you. can you give us some idea of what's going on in the school right now? >> the investigation has been going continuous all night long. our objective was to positively all night long. it was to get closure and make it'sier for them if there was a way do that. our detectives worked well through the night. by early this morning, they were able to positively identify all the victims and make positive identification of all the victims. >> lieutenant vance, when will the bodies be removed from the school? >> that has been accomplished. that was done overnight. we worked very closely with the

medical examiner who was on the scene to kpe pe dietexpedite the process. now we're working on the exterior of the building and they'll continue to do so until they've completed their work. >> paul, it's john miller in fork if you can hear me. first of all, i want to say you have done a remarkable job over the last 24 hours and i take my hat off to you for that getting information out and getting it right. >> thank you. >> i wanted to ask yesterday when this happened the connecticut state police which had an immediate reaction rapid deployment for school shootings, i think you updated it after the bethland school massacre. it seemed to work very fast. you called up all available troopers and all off-duty troopers. how soon after the incident did you have an idea of how big and how bad it was?

>> when our teams arrived, they immediately form lated what we callive shooting teams and entered the school immediately. we have a duo objective. number one, eradicate or stop the killing or shooting and the second certainly and most important is to find and rescue as many people as possible. our teams did that. they were very successful and very heroic rescuing groups at a time, getting them out of harm's way to a safe location and going back in and continuing that process. unfortunately they came to the heartbreak and devastation that they encountered in two of those classrooms. >> paul, just to follow up the other question that i learned after the amish school massacre in pennsylvania, the mandatory counseling they put in for everybody who responded to the scene because of the effect it was going to have on the responders. what are the plans for the state police? >> we've done that already.

we have grief counselors. certainly we provided them to the families. but we also understand the first responders troopers fire service, and ems people that responded to that scene also needed to vent to talk and to have support. this was a devastating, heartbreaking, tragic scene. i've been a trooper longer than i want to admit and i can tell you from firsthand experience it was absolutely horrific. >> lieutenant vance, we've been hearing a number of different stories about the mom, adam lanza's mom's relationship to the school. what can you tell us about that? >> we haven't discuss thad publicly yet. there are some issues out there relative to a positive connection, but that's part and parcel of our investigation. we have investigators who will peel back the onion. but that i mean we'll leave no

stone unturned to nemoives that may have had impact and caused this to occur. >> lieutenant paul vance and john miller in new york. thank you. it's about 35 after the hour. let's pause for a moment for another look at the weather for your weekend. up next, there was a safety plan at sandy hook elementary school, but it wasn't enough. what more must be done to keep our kids safe? you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." if you're living with moderate to severe crohn's disease, and it feels like your life revolves around your symptoms,

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sandy hook elementary came up with a new plan and conducted drills. dawn hochsprung tweeted this. safety first. sandy hook. it's a beautiful day for our evacuation drill. we're joined now. joseph, thank you. i know this is a really difficult time for the community, so thank you for being with us. >> i'm glad i'm here but i wish i didn't have to be here. >> what was the process yesterday of notifying parents? >> the school system as i understand it did robocalls to all the parents, letting them know what had occurred. there was also an appear to parents of sandy hook not to come to the school, but that's almost an appeal that you make but it isn't going to work. parents came here as i understand it. you know the story.

they evacuated the children to the firehouse behind us and then started the process of reunited parents with children. they put a the schools in the district on lockdown. in fact, most of the districts in the area put their schools on lockdown. the initial report was there were two gunmen and that was what was following. >> we should note here we're dealing with a case where it appears that the shooter had a relationship obviously with his mother who worked at the school so he may have been known to people at the school. >> i'm not sure that's the case. wi us talking with the superintendent before we came on the air. we're told the mother did not have a relationship with the school. the protocol is there's a buzzer and people have to identify who they are. you know 99,999 times you're going to let them in because they have a legitimate reason to

be here. >> do you know if the person who buzzed in adam lanza knew adam lanza? >> that i don't know. you'd have to ask people here. you can talk about security all you want but until we take away guns from people that are mentally disturbed, this is going to continue going on. it's happened in schools, shopping malls, movie theaters. we have to deal with the problem that we have here. and, you know, security's going to get beefed up at every school in the country, i'm sure but that's no guarantee this kind of thing can't happen again until we deal with the fact that people that are disturbed are getting their hands on guns and you can see what happens. >> in the meantime you have a lot of children who are going to be very upset by this. >> the superintendent told me this school is not going to be available for a while. she's also been told it's very important to get the other children back into school before christmas. so she's going to have to make

arrangements. a number of schools in the area are offering school if needed. she might have to pull double sessions so the kids can use the building. there's going to be grief counselling going on. >> thank you for taking the time to be with us today. >> thank you. up next more on school safety. we'll ask an expert what must be done to protect our kids in the classroom. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." [ female announcer ] there are lots of different ways to say get well to your loved ones. ♪ ♪ this came for you, mommy. [ female announcer ] but it takes the touch of kleenex® brand, america's softest tissue to turn a gesture into a complete gift of care. [ barks ] send your own free kleenex® care pack... full of soothing essentials at kleenex.com.

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the mass murder in newtown, connecticut, is by no means an isolated incident. sadly it's a footnote in a can nation that was once thought of as safe school. friday morning, the shooting shocked the newtown, connecticut, community and the

nation. they may be the youngest victims of a school shooting but sadly they are far from the first. in the late 1990s school shootings became all too common. in towns like west paducah, kentucky jonesboro, arkansas and springfield, oregon. by april 1999 after the massacre at columbine high school in littleton, colorado, left 12 students and a teacher dead the issue of school violence had become a national issue. just two months after the shooting, u.s. secret service and the department of education initiated a report on school violence, and in 2002 they released the safe school initiative implications for the prevention of school attacks in the united states. it looked at 37 incidents of targeting school shootings in the u.s. dating back to 1974. it asked could we have 9/11 that these attacks were being planned and what can be done to prevent future attacks from occurring. the increased awareness,

however, didn't stop school shootings. students were shot and killed on an indian reservation in 2005 a one-room amish classroom in 2006, and the campus of virginia tech in 2007. just this year three died at a high school shooting in ohio. ken trump is the president of the national school and safety and security services and an expert on school violence. he joins us from cleveland this morning. good morning. >> good morning. >> let me start. as somebody who's studied this whole issue, what was your reaction to what you saw yesterday? >> i have 25 years in the school safety prevention but i'm also a father. i was actually standing on the playground of my own child's school. my children are at a school very similar to the age groups and it's a punch in the gut.

it's a situation where every parent across the country is struck. and while we had columbine and hoped and prayed that we'd seen the worst, i think we saw something a little bit worse than columbine yesterday. >> and, ken, as i remember from columbine around the country, there were calls for schools to beef up security, people wanting to make sure that their children were safe, understandably. what's been done since then as far as the progress goes in making our schools safer? >> there was a significant amount of improvement in school security and emergency planning. schools caught up with decades of neglect in basic security and crisis planning after columbine, and in the months and years after the columbine incident we made a great deal of progress and a lot of that has been grained. having crisis plans, teams, practicing lockdown drills, controlling access to your building, training the staff. in the last few years, five or

six years, we've seen some of those progress due to cutbacks and resources both on counselors, mental health as well as security personal emergency planning and training. there's been an enormous focus on p.e.t. scans and forms and bunts and schools and we have to keep school safety on the front burner. >> ken, as the school superintendent here just pointed out, i mean they've beefed up security here as well. i mean and then you have an incident like this and you have to ask yourself you know how much more condition schools really do? >> well, we don't want to teach kindergartenners to throw pencils and back packs and armed intrierdin intruders and metal detectors at every door. what we need is mental detectors.

recently we've seen the lone wolf actors in theaters malls, places of worship and it's unrealistic to think that we may not see that same type of behavior cross into our schools. the one thing that i think that's important is parents need to send their children to school on monday morning. it will be the safest day in school history because of heightened awareness, but as a country and schools and communities, we have to look six months, six years out and make sure we're still having those conversations and sensitivity as we are in the upcoming days. >> we cannot forget. >> ken trump. thank you, ken. >> thank you, ken. we appreciate it next. coming up next after the shooting began, six young survivors ran and they wound up on a nearby drive way. the man who found them shares his story. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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gene rosen rejoins us now. and as we mentioned earlier, he lives right next to the firehouse behind us. as the shooting began, he found six young children at the end of his driveway. they were crying and they had been inside sandy hook elementary and witnessed some of the carnage. gene, there's so much more to talk about, and we sincerely appreciate you being with us here today again. we were talking a little bit ago about these six children who came into your house. some of them were inconsolable. what conversation were you having with them at that point? what were they telling you that they had seen. >> they just kept saying that they couldn't go back to the

school. i think one of them said they had seen some blood. one of them said two boys were talking about guns and one of them said there was a big gun and a little gun, and i was absolutely -- i couldn't believe what they were talking about because i had no knowledge. >> you hadn't heard the reports yet. >> i had not heard the report. >> right. >> the person that accompanied them was a bus driver who i think might have picked them up somehow after they were fleeing and as they began talking, i realized something really horrible happened. >> they called their parents from your house. >> i asked them for their numbers. their parents came and i hugged their parents. it was so good to see their parents. they were so happy. they were so happy. i was about ready to go to a diner, a local diner here in

newtown in sandy hook and all of our lives have changed in just a few minutes. the community's still here. good. i like being here. i like going to the diner. it's an old vestage of our culture, a family diner. it was just up the street. and i never got up to the diner. >> families are so important to this community and they're a big part of why this community is so special. what was it like to watch these children reunited with their own? >> it was so -- it was just -- i -- i didn't know who to hug, the children or the parents, so i just hugged them both. my arms were not big enough to get around them all. wi us so happy that they saw their children and their children were immediately

talking about them. >> and the children were so fortunate you were there. >> thank you. >> thank you. later they're going to advice us on gun control. for the rest of you, your local channel. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." and we're back. anthony mason and i are here in newtown, connecticut and we're also joined by john miller who has been following this right from the beginning. yesterday, john, i was struck by -- you and i were sitting at the anchor desk for the evening news around 11:30 and you were getting these phone calls from law enforcen't about it. we were looking at each other in disbelief. it was at that moment john hard to imagine that those numbers could be real, and yet here we are sitting here today

and they are. >> that's right, rebecca. and i recall vividly these texts were coming to my phone, 27 dead 14 of them children. i didn't want to say the numbers out loud because i thought this must be a mistake, but i pushed the phone over to you and showed you the text messages and i said, you know this can't be true true, and as it unfolded it turned out to be true and worse. >> and you're a father john. you have children about this age. i remember looking across at you. you've been in this business and you've been covering these stories both as a journalist and in the fbi as an investigator. it must be tough to hear the news. >> it is. no matter how much experience you have in law enforcement

i've been on cases where children have been killed. as a father it affects you differently than it does -- or would before. >> we'll be right back. stay with us. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

welcome to "cbs this morning saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> and i'm rebecca jarvis and we are live in newtown, connecticut, this morning with cbs news coverage of the massacre of young children at sandy hook elementary school. we begin this half hour with "cbs this morning" senior correspondent john miller who's in new york with the very latest on the investigation of

yesterday's attack. john you've been following this almost from the moment that it began. what have you learned? >> what we're learning is investigators have more questions to answer than they have answers for them and they're going down a path of trying to establish some critical things. number one, they need a time line and a pathway of exactly what occurred in that school starting with how did the suspect get in. they had heard reports that he showed up at the door identified himself, and was buzzed in. we have reports that he shot out a window and walked through the glass or opened the door there. in these things it's very confusing because these police when they made their immediate entry, they may have taken out the glass. so they've really got to sort through it. they also need to know what was the motive behind this. the answer may not resonate with us when we finally learn it but part of the investigation is going to be to find out what drove it and how long the individual who carried this out, adam lanza, was involved in

planning it. did he give others warning? that is very typical when people send out warning signals that they're doing something like that and they'll be looking at that. and then the issue of the guns how were they registered to his mom, what did they look like how did he get access of those. all questions they're looking to answer. >> this suspect adam lanza, you've described him as someone who was living with his mom at home. he had left his room in immaculate condition, spotless. and he also was reportedly wearing a bulletproof vest at the scene of the crime where he was found dead. what more can you tell us about that? >> well, investigators who did the search of the house yesterday, they had exogent

circumstances. they took a step back and said we're going do thentry very carefully. what we learned in aurora is in some cases these are booby trapped by the shooter, so working with the bomb squad from the connecticut state police and the s.w.a.t. team they did a very cautious entry and then they found that the mother had been shot in the face. and when you consider this was a homicide committed by her son, that is a very personal very aggressive way from offender character riis sticks speaks to the idea that he certainly had serious issues with his mother. then when they get to his room they see that it is not what they expect from the room of maybe a 20-year-old if you've about ever been in a college dorm. it was one investigator who was inside. it was described as immaculate. everything was folded put away everything had a place, nothing strewn around. and it seems telling in some way of the organized personality of

someone who would go to such intricate and detailed planning for such a terrible crime. >> john one thing we're hearing from school officials this morning is, you know how do we get at the issue of mental illness in people and preventing something like this earlier than, you know at the front door of the school obviously. are there warning signs for people like this? >> well, there are. and we've learned an awful lot about them. there is, you know what we call pathway behavior and i think when we talk to our former fbi profiler later, she'll discuss this. that's when they start to take the actions that show they're going down the path of actually doing something. that may be obtaining the weapons, buying large amounts of ammunition, going to the sites, and doing their walk-throughs to plan how they're going to do it. but there's also what they call warning behavior. that's when they tell friends, whether it's on facebook or whether it's in person soon you'll see i'm going to get even

or i'm going to teach people a lesson, comments like that. and in almost every case we see warning behavior and in many many cases we see people ignore that because they just don't believe it. they don't believe the person intends to do it or is capable. more and more often now we're seeing where people are hearing that and have taken that lesson. we recently saw a case where a young man planned to shoot up a movie theater at a premiere of a vampire movie, and it was his own mother who said he's bought these weapons, he's bought this ammunition, and i think he's going do something, and that was prevented. >> all right. john miller in our new york bureau. thank you, john. >> thank you, john. the issue of gun control was barely mentioned during the presidential campaign but is it possible that the connecticut school shooting could alter the political equation in washington and prompt the first serious debate on guns in years? >> our hearts are broken for the

parents of the survivors as well. >> when president obama made his remarks about the shootings in connecticut, he was standing in the james s. brady briefing room, named after the former press secretary who was injured when a gunman opened fire on president reagan in 1981 and whose name became synonymous with gun control. the brady act requiring background checks, was signed into law almost 20 years ago. the last significant gun control legislation, the assault weapons ban, expired in 2004. >> as a country, we have been through this too many times. on friday the president sent a clear signal to congress that gun control must be addressed on a national level. >> we're going to have to come together to take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this regardless of the politics. >> there's another precedent for the white house seizing the

moment for gun control, the assassinations of president kennedy, martin luther king and robert kennedy, led to the gun control act of 1968. new york mayor michael bloomberg, a staunch gun control advocate yesterday took the president to task on the issue. the country needs him to send a bill to congress to fix this problem, calling for meaningful action is not enough. we need immediate action. but friday was a day to remember the fallen. >> the majority of those who died today were children. they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduations weddings kids of their own. >> so will this tragedy make a real difference in gun control? let's get some perspective from someone who's followed it since the kennedy assassination. chief white house correspondent

and "face the nation" bob schieffer. bob, good morning to you. do you think this rely changes things? >> i think when we saw the president say we must come together and take some meaningful action i took him at his word but what will that action be and what is possible? what has happened here rebecca, after the assassination of kennedy and later with the assassination attempt on ronald reagan, we began to have a serious debate on gun control, but the national rifle association, perhaps the most influential lobby in washington declared war on any kind of gun control, and in 2004 when the a assault bans weapon ran out they said well the war is over and the nra has won. since then politicens democrats

and republicans have been extremely reluctant to talk about this. during the last session of congress, no gun control legislation of any kind. when i say gun control, i'm talking about things like tightening background checks, that sort of thing. nothing got out of committee. there was no vote on the floor as far as i can think of on that kind of legislation. so this is going to be a very very difficult thing to do. but, you know the question we have to ask ourselves is what happened yesterday? are we as a society going to accept that as normal? as something that we can't do anything about? and i think that is going to be the base question that we have to ask as a people. >> bob, it's not clear from what the president said yesterday how prepared he is to make it an

issue. there was a statement from the mayor of new york calling again for gun control. he's one of the few public officials even talking about it. as you point out, there isn't even a conversation about this going on in washington, is there? >> no. i mean congress is literally afraid to take on the national rifle association because they know that if they make any kind of statement, a member knows, that even suggests some sort of limits that the national rifle association is going to pour hundreds of thousands of dollars in a campaign to defeat them. we were trying to line up people to be on "face the nation" tomorrow to talk about this. this is the time when you call people and they suddenly seem unavailable, not only for comment, but certainly unavailable to present themselves on television. it just underlice how serious

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so far police have not revealed what might have driven adam lanza to kill 27 people including 20 children before turning the gun on himself, but are there any clues? mary ellen o'toole is a former senior profiler for the fbi and author of "dangerous instincts:how gut feelings beltre us." good morning. >> good morning. >> i think what strikes us are the ages of the children.

i mean did that shock you as much as it shocked everyone else? >> i was absolutely stunned when i heard about the number of children and their ages. it's just absolutely stunning regarding this victimology. >> and then you ask yourself how could someone do this why would someone do this. >> it's very difficult for people like you and me to really comprehend how you can possibly target so many children who are so young, but that may be the very reason that they were targeted because they're very vulnerable, they're fragile, they're helpless they don't fight back they're really contained in those classrooms they can't run. so from the perspective of the shooter, they make perfect victims, perfect targets. it's a horrible thing to say, but behaviorally that's

probably the element for him. >> mary ellen o'tooleh o'toole, thank you for helping us out in this. >> you're welcome. >> one of the thing that strikes me, one of the characteristics -- and i learned a lot of this from you -- is people tend to lash out at the people in the world that they think have shut them out or isolated them. that means killing co-workers at the office or fellow students of their own age at a high school for instance. what does it signal or say in this instance where a defender kills children he probably never met or knew and certainly weren't the source of his issues in his life? >> that's right. these children did nothing to him. they were, for the most part john, they would have been strangers to him. based on what is known right now, there does appear to be some relationship that this

shooter most likely had with that school and that relationship could have come from the mother if she worked there, which seems to be the impetus here. so if those children were important to the mother going in and kill as what's important to the mother could have been one of the primary motives behind targeting those specific children in those specific classrooms. >> if i might follow up the other thing we've always talked about together is warning behavior. in almost every case the killer sends out signals before they're going do something. do you expect to see that here even from an individual who, as this report shapes up seemed to be a bit of a loner? >> i do expect to see that here. and isn't that the characterization that we hear so often on these shooters they're loners and somewhat a recluse. however, i do expect to see warning behaviors. and, john i expect to see

multiple warning behaviors that were either ignored, rationalized, explained away. but they're going to be there. and i think as the investigation continues, those will be revealed. >> which, mary ellen, you bring up such an interesting and good point because oftentimes this is what happens. there are warning signs, they are ignored, and it's hard to separate the true criminal from a person who just happens to have really negative warning signs in their life which never comes to fruition. >> well that's right. and when we talk about warning signs to law enforcement or to the schools, what we tell them is look don't vet these warning signs yourself. call law enforcement. let them vet them, take a look at them investigate them. because you may have just one piece of the puzzle with the warning sign that you saw, and with all those pieces law enforcement would be able to say

this is a serious threat or there's nothing to it. but don't vet that warning behavior on your own. >> mary ellen o'toole, thank you so much. we appreciate your insight. and up next cbs news state department correspondent margaret brennan returns to newtown. her personal story of growing up nearby and how the tragedy has impacted her family and friends. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday." [ game announcer ] touchdown! and here comes the dunk. [ male announcer ] everyone loves to dunk. ♪ ♪ [ game announcer ] will he dunk it? yes, he will. [ male announcer ] mcdonald's tender, juicy chicken mcnuggets in creamy ranch and spicy buffalo sauce. just $4.99 for 20 of your favorite chicken mcnuggets. ♪ ♪ [ game announcer ] will he dunk it? yes, he will. [ male announcer

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what kind of place is this? >> reporter: newtown is sort of your classic new england town. one maybe street. i grew up in danbury, the town where the main hospital is. it's one of those places where one of the first responders said you move here because things don't happen here. there is no gun culture. this is a very quiet town. >> that's an interesting point that you make. this is not a place where you expect something -- well no place is a place where you expect something like this to happen let's be clear. but because as you said this is not a gun culture area that made it even more shocking. >> reporter: it was. it was one of the strange things coming up here from washington journalists coming up to cover the story. so often when we talk about these stories it's out west or areas where hunting and more obvious cultures are integrated. here i was listening the people and i'm shaking up hearing people talk about it. i know that. the first thing i did yesterday

is pick up the phone and find out where my cousins here who were in lockdown at the catholic school. >> one of your cousins is 12 years old? >> reporter: junior high age. >> when you're talking to your family and they're on the ground here, especially in the initial stages of this what were they telling you? what was the feedback? >> reporter: we were just trying to find out where people were and if they were okay and part-time were trying to find out what they could do. that's what was so disappointing is people were sent home. there was no one to help. there were so few people. one of the kids actually made it to the hospital who later died and one of the adults as well. so it's very strange. my family is struggling with what they tell their kids and how they explain this and whether they go back to school or not. i mean most activities have been canceled this weekend, so there isn't a lot of distraction from all of this right now. >> right. well, i imagine it's hard to be

distracted around here from this. and i imagine also in many ways the community at this point is still absorbing all the information before they can really start to come to grips with what's happened. >> reporter: yeah. i mean i was eating dinner last night at the restaurant we were at. there were so many people just sharing stories. the bus driver who drove these kids to school yesterday was there at the bar and talking to people. i mean you don't want to go up and bother people as a journalist, and i didn't want to be that yesterday. so it's -- it's a shock. i mean people are just really sort of trying to absorb and just get through, i think, is what i know from my connections here. >> what do you think that the rest of the nation who's watching can do to help them rebuild? >> i don't know frankly. i mean i don't know what your next day is. i don't know how they explain to some of these little kids what

happened. there are mandatory debriefings you have to deal with. when you're dealing with a small child, there's a lot. >> thanks margaret. >> thanks margaret. stay with us. we'll be right back. and we're back with margaret brennan. margaret margaret, we were talking about the fact that you have family that lives in this town lives nearby. you grew up not far from here. you had one of the first e-mails that i got from cbs news. is it an uncle who worked with ems or somebody in your family was seeing some of the first responses to this. >> the first phone call was to find out where my cousins were because they're here in newtown. my cousin fiona attends st. rose

school. i was calling to find out what they were hearing or doing and it was so strarj to see the headlines flash. one of our producers, i said can you believe it happened? >> right. nobody believes it's possible. >> reporter: no. when i think of newtown, i think of the town hall $2 movies places i went to my dance recitals growing up. you don't think of something like this happening to a place that you have connections to. as you can see, you've walked around. it's small-town feel and people know each other. there's no anonymous sense of loss here. i think everyone knows someone. it's a small town. it's a small state. >> what gene rosen who lives across the school pointed out this morning is in a second this whole incident changed him. it's different. >> one of the nurses i was talking to yesterday said she was scheduled to work the night shift and she didn't sleep all

day because she couldn't walk away from her television set even though she knew she had to go in and do her work. people were so shocked and frozen. and the local churches. they were planning christmas

welcome back to "cbs this morning saturday." from newtown, connecticut, i'm rebecca jarvis? and i'm anthony mason. we're here to bring you full coverage of the tragic shooting attack at the sandy hook elementary school that left 20 children and seven adults dead before the gunman killed himself. cbs news justice correspondent bob orr joins us now from our washington bureau. good morning, bob.

>> good morning, anthony and rebecca. today is not any easier than yesterday. i'm afraid to say i don't believe we have a great deal -- a lot of new answers as to what really went on here. we do know at this point the investigators are very confident that one gunman carried out this atrocity. that's adam lanza, the 20-year-old man that we've been talking about. we know that he used three weapons that were apparently purchased legally and registered in the name of his mother. a couple of the wells were semiautomatic pistols, a glock 9 millimeter and a sig sauer. also a m-223. there were conflicting reports. first report says the gun may have been in his mother's car in the parking lot, but later that was called into question when

some .223 casings, shell casings were found inside the school. now there's a belief that the weapon was directly involved in the attack. whatever it was, this was a young man armed to the teeth, went to a very specific target very undefended target and very much at will had his way there. it was an awful morning. >> bob, at this point, the shooter's relationship to the school is a little more shady at this point if you will. it looked initially like his mother was a teacher a school. now, we know she wasn't a teacher and it's not even clear if she worked there. is that correct? >> yeah. in these types of stories, anthony, you have very fluid accounts. the investigators are trying to piece them together in real time and we're trying our best to keep up with that. yeah, there are conflicting reports as to what her relationship to the school might have been. some say she may have been an aide working or volunteer working at the school. but it is clear that adam lanza

was familiar with the target. when he got to the school he was somebody who understood the building's layout, knew where he was going apparently. and this is important because it seems as if according to investigators, that he went to a specific section of the school and targeted for whatever reason, whatever the reason might have been targeting two specific classrooms of young children. so as they work back through the planning, whatever it was that led him to do this. among the questions they were trying to answer is why the school, why was this a target. was he trying to carry out some kind of revenge in his mind something against the target that may have been important to his mother? these are all the things that investigators are trying to untangle. >> bob this has become a national story at this point and it has national consequences. how are the federal authorities supporting the local authorities in this investigation? >> you know it's an interesting point, rebecca. a lot of times federal official

s accuse the local authorities. in this case they have the full support across the spectrum of government agencies from washington. the atf for example, they are now tracing the guns, trying to check the ownership and when they were purchased and how they were maintained that kind of thing. of course, the fbi has been involved with evidence assistance. so while it is a local and state investigation, federal officials are involved as well. >> bob or in our washington bureau. thank you, bob. >> thank you, bob. we're going to take one last look at your local weather. here's the weather for your weekend.

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a tragedy like the newtown school attacks is difficult to fathom let alone explain, but for young children as victims it's even tougher. how do you explain this to your kids? the head of the children's health fund and cbs morning contributor lee woodruff. good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> let me start with you. i know i went home after work and my 12-year-old son didn't talk about what happened but i could tell he was upset by it. he wanted to be hugged more than usual and then i got a phone call from my 24-year-old daughter in chicago who without saying anything wanted to touch base with everybody. this is one of those things where even if your kids don't

speak about it they're almost certainly affected aren't they? >> there's no question about it. many, many children will be affected and they could be anywhere in the world. and any child exposed to the news even about what's happened has the potential of being affected. most children are going to be resilient. they'll get through this. but they will need a certain kind of support and comfort and being there from their parents. this is a little bit tricky and we want to make sure we answer the questions that the children ask, but we're limiting information in certain ways. but there's a lot we can do to make this easier and more possible for them to get through this without any serious long-term issues. >> and you need to comfort them even if they don't ask questions, right? >> there's a lot of nonvernbal communication that comes from children as parents know and something we need to be extremely attentive to. children stop talking or become

agitated. they might become more aggressive with their siblings or have any behavioral change you can think of including sleep problems, they can't sleep at night, they're having nightmares. but all of these issues are things that parents should be aware of and those are signals to the parents that we really need to get close, we need to be reassuring, and we need to be providing information that is absolutely relevant to their particular age and developmental stage. and i think by doing those things we can really help children get through what is going to be a very difficult time, especially a lot of younger children. >> lee, there's really no how-to booklet for dealing with something like this. being at the vigil, i talked to so many parents who had so many different viewpoints what they would tell their children how they would handle this at home. i wonder what you're doing in your home with your children. >> last night was a big night in my house because my 12-year-old

twins were going to their first boy/girl dance. so the television was on and i walked into the room and i just turned it off, and my girls had a lot of questions but they were sort of general. are we safe. and i -- actually one twin's response was very different from the other, and so my answer is always broad brush strokes. don't give them any more information than you need. but, of course the first question is mom, can this happen in our school and my big answer to parents is don't lie to them. you can't pretend you have all the answers, but what i say to my kids is i believe you're safe and we're doing everything in our town to keep you safe. but you can't tell your kids that no harm willer come to them or they will never see a bad thing. to keep it general, we hugged we touched, did their hair. it's all those little things that noenlt wasanthony was talking about. >> lee, it's interesting. even when you answer the question the first time it's still there a number of days

later. you've got to persist on this don't you? >> i think the lingering days, you feeling or hor are you doing, the open-ended questions to get them to be more specific. the last thing i want to do is ask them any of the specifics of the details of this tragedy. >> doctor, if you're personally upset, do you hide that from your children? do you share it with them? >> well, actually you need to remain as calm and under control as possible. every adult human being, adult parent, grand parent, is feeling the trauma of this tremendous event. it's very important when interacting with your children that you remain calm and reassuring and as stable as possible. it's not that you don't acknowledge that you're upset. you can do that at the same time being reassuring and a stable

figure. they call adults buffers for serious trauma like this for children and it's very important that we see ourselves acting to protect our kids and doing so may be difficult. but expressing the fact that this is a horrible event, you feel terrible about it at the same time you feel like you're reassuring them and the closeness that lee was talking about, that has to be done all at the same time. it can come up days weeks, months from now as to the behaviors and questions and whatever's going on with their children. just stay close and stay alert to any of the signals that may indicate their children are being more effective than you might think. >> one of the things i worry about in this culture with video games and movies and we're so exposed to violence is it's really important to show the children that you're em pathic.

so yesterday when my daughter came up to me on the couch i had tears in my eyes. i said honey, i'm so, so sad. i want you to thing about these families. it's a real thing. i think there's a tendency to feel numb because you think it happens all the time. it's important to tell your children these are real people real lives. >> good point. >> thank you for being with us. more on the shooting in newtown from your local news with john miller. [ male announcer ] with free package pickup from the u.s. postal service the holidays are easy. visit usps.com. pay, print, and have it picked up for free before december 20th for delivery in time for the holidays. you can even give us special instructions on where to find it. free package pickup. from the u.s. postal service. because it's nice to have an extra pair of hands around for the holidays.

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the attack on the sandy hook elementary school here in newtown is drawing comparisons to past tragedies, especially the columbine high school shootings 13 years ago in colorado. daryl scott's daughter rachel died that day. his son craig was inside the school and witnessed his friends being killed. daryl scott now works to prevent school violence and he joins us now from denver. thank you so much for joining us, a different good morning. >> you're welcome. thank you. >> it is nearly impossible for anybody to even comprehend what you've gone through, but the

people here are going through it now, and i wonder in retrospect looking back what you would tell them how does it get better? >> you know they don't need the advice of someone other than their family and friends, but they really need their family and friends right now. they're going to go through several stages beginning with shock and disbelief and a certain amount of anger. you know, there's just a whole gambit of emotions. but what they need the most is just family and friends right now now. >> it's something you never get over but does it get better with time? >> it does get easier with time. there's still days. if anyone's lost a child, they know you never completely heal from that. but those initial months in the first year or two are by far the worst and eventually you're able to look back and remember the good times an celebrate the life of the person that you loved and

lost, and that's what we do on a daily basis. we share rachel's story with millions of kids around the country. >> you have poured so much time and energy into columbine redemption. tell us about the work you're doing and the progress that you're making. >> well, we have a program called rachel's challenge that reaches about 3 million students a year and we believe we are a prevent program, but we're not a crisis intervention program. we don't help -- we're not able to help in the middle of a crisis but we have seen seven school shootings prevented in the last five years and several suicide preventions. we do that. we have 54 presenters that go in to schools from kindergarten all the way through college and we have 28 different programs. do trainings, assemblies, a lot of interaction with young people. we provide online materials for them as well as teacher training. so our program reaches about 3

million students in the united states as well as several thousand around the world. >> daryl scott in denver. thank you for joining us and thank you for what you do. >> well, thank you. >> we'll be right back. you're watching "cbs this morning saturday."

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before we leave, stay with cbs news and cbs.com for continuing coverage on the newtown shooting tragedy. tonight at 10:00 eastern time, "tragedy in newtown," a "48 hours" special report. we have been in newtown for less than 24 hours. we want to say thank you to newtown as a community. first of all, they are housing a number of journalists, and we're here to cover this story. it is obviously a very sad day here, and you can feel it in the late autumn air and see it on the faces of the people who live here everywhere around you. >> we leave you this saturday

morning with a look back at the events of the past day with prayers for healing for those touched by this terrible tragedy. evil visited this community today. earlier today, a number of our citizens beautiful children, had their lives taken away from them. sandy hook school. caller indicating she thinks there's someone shooting in the building. >> the majority of those who died today were children. beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old. >> you're continuing to hear what you believe to be gunfire. >> we've got bodies here. >> they had their entire lives ahead of them. birthdays, graduation, weddings

kids of their own. >> we just ran to the fire station, and we -- you just saw lots and lots of kids and crying and parents, and you just search, for your child's teacher, for your child's face. i heard mommy mommy, and there he was, sitting there waiting for us. >> what an amazing moment after going through the sheer terror of that to see my son alive. >> i'm just so grateful to the teacher who saved him. >> you think the teacher saved his life. >> she definitely did. >> while these parents were waiting for their children to come out, they thought that they were, you know still alive, and there's 20 pavements that were just told that their children are dead. it was awful. >> all those families i am so

sorry. i am so sorry you have this to deal with. >> nothing makes sense like this. it's senseless. ♪ >> right now we have 20 new saints, 20 beautiful angels, a 20 people who are angels for all the days to come. >> all i can think of is they were about to -- they were excited and they were getting ready to celebrate christmas. >> little 5- and 6-year-old kids, their lives were stripped from them. >> these neighborhoods are our neighborhoods, and these children are our children. >> we're all in this together. we'll get through it. >> there are no words. there are no words.

>> i have no words that makes the pain of what happened today easier to bear. >> may god bless the memory of the vim tims and in the words of scripture, heal the brokenhearted and bind up their wounds. we came out here in the dark this morning and it struck me that as we felt the sun come up on our backs and things began to wark up and it's a very bright day here in newtown, connecticut, but it's also a very dark day because they're only just beginning to really see what happened here. we still don't know the names of the victims. the bodies are still in the school. there is still much to sort through in these next few days and it's going to be -- and christmas is still coming up. >> right around the corner.

>> and i think for so many families here, you know remembering christmas is always going to mean remembering this. >> yeah. it is going to be incredibly tough on this community and so many communities. you saw last night at the vigils. people from all over the state came. senator blumenthal the governor, even the pope sent a message to the people here to st. rose church. and i think one of the -- if you can call it a happier message, it's looking at the teachers and what those teachers in the sandy hook classrooms did for those children. >> amazing things. amazing things. thank you for being with us this saturday morning. our prayers go out to the people here in newtown, connecticut. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

young lives shattered after that shooting inside an there's 20 parents that were just told that their children are dead. >> young lives shattered. new details this morning about the gunman and the heros who helped save lives. an emotional conversation over gun control laws here in the u.s. it is 7 o'clock saturday morning, december 15th. thanks for joining us today. it's a difficult day. it has been 24 hours now. people in newtown connecticut and